Gifts from Brusspup, Our Favorite Optical Illusion Guy

Dec 18, 2014

It’s an old visual trick: precisely parallel lines on a transparent sheet slid over specially striated images create the illusion of motion.

But Brusspup always delivers fresh fun. In this new video he makes a ring transform to revolving balls and change color! Ovals become rotating cogs. A cylinder turns into a swiveling cube. He’s also achieved the feeling of speeding through a checkered tunnel, a soaring super hero, and a walking Tyrannosaurus Rex so real that even Brusspup’s cat wanted to get at it!

*The parallel lines template must be printed onto a transparency sheet. The other images may be printed on paper. It’s important that you print everything at the same size for the motion effect to work properly.